African American Women
Unlike white women, who could identify motherhood with privilege and social status, motherhood for slave women was connected and rooted in a social system of bondage. The jobs of the black women were mothers, field hands, breeders, nannies, servants, wives and concubines. They were demanded to fully participate in work including farming, cleaning, cooking and other domestic tasks. Reproduction was an important part of life for a slave woman. As mothers, they loved their children and cared them in spite of the multiple tasks they performed. However, many of them had to face with the separation with their children. Children were often be sold or violated.
Also, African American women started to join suffrage movement, after the black man had gained right to vote. Although the leading suffrage organizations worked for equal rights under the law, Some National American Woman Suffrage Association members (NAWSA) didn’t like African American women’s attempts to join the movement.
The White suffragists’ rejection of Black women caused irony when their movement was grown out of the abolition movement.
Also, African American women started to join suffrage movement, after the black man had gained right to vote. Although the leading suffrage organizations worked for equal rights under the law, Some National American Woman Suffrage Association members (NAWSA) didn’t like African American women’s attempts to join the movement.
The White suffragists’ rejection of Black women caused irony when their movement was grown out of the abolition movement.
